Geography
The region located near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay
What is the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region?
Virginia's indigenous people used this natural resource for clothing
What are animal skins?
This was the year the English arrived in Virginia (at Jamestown)
What is 1607?
The success of this crop made Virginia rich, but it also led to an unfair and harmful system of slavery
What is tobacco?
This group of colonists wanted independence from Britain, unlike the Loyalists who sided with King George III
Who were the Patriots?
This river flows into Chesapeake Bay. The cities Richmond & Jamestown are located on it.
What is the James River?
This is an example of an artifact
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What is an arrowhead?
What is pottery?
In 1619, this group of people were forcibly taken from their homeland to be treated as property and made to work without freedom
Who were Africans (from modern-day Angola)?
This is the term for when you buy something now, but pay for it later
What is credit?
This document states that authority to govern belongs to the people
What is the Declaration of Independence?
An area of elevated land that is flat on top
What is a plateau?
This was once a powerful capital for the Powhatan people
What is Werowocomoco?
One reason England wanted to establish an American colony
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The term for a crop that is grown to sell money rather than use it by the farmers who grew it
What is a cash crop?
This man wrote the document expressing the reasons for colonial independence from England
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Virginia's mountains are part of this larger mountain system
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
The term for the study of people from the past by uncovering and studying things they left behind
What is archaeology?
This was a problem with the location of Jamestown
What is marshy and lacked safe drinking water?
Contaminated water, dirty living conditions causing diseases to spread, and several fires were the reasons for this event
What is the moving of the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
He spoke out against taxation without representation by saying, "give me liberty of give me death?"
Who was Patrick Henry?
This region can be found just west of the Fall Line and has rolling hills
What is Piedmont?
What is Algonquian?
The first elected legislative body of government in English America
What was the House of Burgesses?
Germans and Scots-Irish settled primarily in this valley, which was along the migration route (and where we live!)
What is the Shenandoah Valley?
James Armistead Lafayette was an enslaved African American from Virginia who served in this role for the Patriots
What is a spy?